New York Times: Amherst is Open to Low Incomes

Elite Colleges Open New Door to Low-Income YouthsThe New York Times, May 27 The discussion in the States of Poverty seminar here at Amherst College was getting a little theoretical. Then Anthony Abraham Jack, a junior from Miami, asked pointedly, “Has anyone here ever actually seen a food stamp?”

NPR On Point: Amherst President Marx on Diversity

Walter Benn Michaels and "The Trouble with Diversity" NPR "On Point," April 5 Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx appeared as a guest on the NPR call-in talk show "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook. The topic Walter Benn Michaels's polemical The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality (2006).